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Belsen Poems - Poems about Belsen

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Premium Member Silent Scream
...Heart's silent scream lovers torn from savaged arms Hunched over bludgeoned into queue they disappear from view Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Buch......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, cry, death, evil, heart,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member As Survivors Dwindle To a Precious Few
...Blackened potato rock-hard tomato Piece of stale bread filthy mattress, a bed All luxuries at Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen and Dachau ......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, food, health, horror, world
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Degradation
...“A trail of human misery and degradation” Derives from a mid-16th century text from Old French Illustrated best by the Inquisition and the Holocaust But it conjures up a long history of......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, history, holocaust, horror, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Historic Event
... The Nazi concentration camps were liberated by allies of the Second World War . . . they found camps filled with sick and starving people including children and babies the Germans......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jingle-Jangle Bells
...Jingle-jangle bells Sing-song syncopation Ambulances hurtle down streets of post-war Europe Eerie bells; haunting bells ghosts of round-ups, of Auschwitz of Buchenwald, and Bergen-B......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, death, pain, sound,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Yemeni Hineni Hymn
...Yemeni Hineni Hymn Abraham responded to God ‘Hineni’ ‘Here I am at your service and ready For the ultimate sacrifice’ Yemeni children have few words for invocati......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, judgement,
Form: Free verse
What Matters
...Affect matters more than numbers do Reason without love ,so blind to ends Rational means were used to kill our Jews. Searching Europe’s “haystacks” for a clue Reason makes its wondrous, obsc......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, angst, feelings, god,
Form: Villanelle
Parasite
...I The beggar outside the supermarket You swore was picked up later In a flashy car Sat there in the sun for 8 hours While you pissed & moaned All the way home To your bookless Mausoleum Wit......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, political,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member From Large To Small
...From ~ LARGE ~ to ~ small ~ K~Konstantin had travelled the world in unbeknown searching~g A~Ariadne lost the plot and her thread a modern Sisyphus on the run~n R~Raised in mat......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Never Forget
...From Poland hailed your Uncle Max, who in matters of manners was a bit lax, While from France came Aunt Belle, whom I thought was really quite swell. Next up from Russia was Cousin Boris, whom I al......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, death, family, memorial, world
Form: Rhyme
Warfare
...meanness cruel actions human history this being our legacy before being submerged in our own heart-waste what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibo......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, war,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Exclusive Birth Rights
...Exclusive Birth Rights I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration though I propose wit......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Made In Neonazia
...Made in Neonazia Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attrac......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, evil,
Form: Free verse
Fiddling About
...Fiddling About. by The Didds Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me, At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round, with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, grief, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Into the Light: Safe Haven, 1944
...INTO THE LIGHT: SAFE HAVEN, 1944 “And you that shall cross from shore to shore…are more to me and more in my meditations, ......Read the rest...
Categories: belsen, celebration, holocaust, remember, voyage,
Form: Verse

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